Liberal Socialists Party

The Liberal Socialists Party was an Islamic liberal political party in Egypt that existed from 1976 to 2011. The party was initially affiliated with the Arab Socialist Union of Egypt, but it split off when the National Democratic Party of Egypt replaced the ASU as the ruling party in the authoritarian state. The party sought to make sharia a main source of legislation, guarantee freedom of expression and thought, elect the president and vice-president through free elections, enhance the role of the private sector, ensure the basic rights of laborers and peasants, implement freedom of the press, to develop education, and to create an independent judiciary. The party dissolved in 2011.